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• Fossil Fuel Companies Took Billions in U.S. Coronavirus Relief Funds but Still Cut Nearly 60,000 Jobs

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  Published 2nd Apr 2021
• How Much Does Climate Change Cost? Biden Raises Carbon’s Dollar Value, but Not by Nearly Enough, Some Say

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  Published 1st Mar 2021
• Activists See Biden’s Day One Focus on Environmental Justice as a Critical Campaign Promise Kept. The new president signed executive orders on inauguration day aimed at embedding equity across the government and rolling back Trump’s anti-environment legacy.

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  Published 24th Jan 2021
• Young Voters, Motivated by Climate Change and Environmental Justice, Helped Propel Biden’s Campaign | They turned out in big numbers and overwhelmingly supported the former vice president. Young voters of color played a critical role in battleground states.

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  Published 9th Nov 2020
• Ecocide: Should Killing Nature Be a Crime? A Growing Number of People Are Saying Yes.

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  Published 8th Nov 2020
• No Matter Who Wins, the US Exits the Paris Climate Accord the Day After the Election | If victorious, Democrat Joe Biden has promised to swiftly rejoin. But the process would be tricky, like jumping on a moving train.

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  Published 2nd Nov 2020
• Analysts See Democrats Likely to Win the Senate, Opening the Door to Climate Legislation

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  Published 2nd Nov 2020
• The Oil Market May Have Tanked, but Companies Are Still Giving Plenty to Keep Republicans in Office

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  Published 29th Oct 2020
• The $16 Million Was Supposed to Clean Up Old Oil Wells; Instead, It’s Going to Frack New Ones | North Dakota, where Covid-19 rates are surging, is redirecting the federal relief money, turning it into grants that will go directly to oil companies.

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  Published 29th Oct 2020
• The Trump Administration Has Proposed Testing for Oil in Arctic Wildlife Refuge This Winter

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  Published 27th Oct 2020
• Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory

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  Published 8th Oct 2020
• Trump’s Pick for the Supreme Court Could Deepen the Risk for Its Most Crucial Climate Change Ruling

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  Published 2nd Oct 2020
• Senate 2020: In Kansas, a Democratic Climate Hawk Closes in on a Republican Climate Skeptic

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  Published 17th Sep 2020
• Fives States Have Filed Climate Change Lawsuits, Seeking Damages From Big Oil and Gas

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  Published 16th Sep 2020
• Senate 2020: Mitch McConnell Now Admits Human-Caused Global Warming Exists. But He Doesn’t Have a Climate Plan

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  Published 11th Sep 2020
• President Donald Trump’s Climate Change Record Has Been a Boon for Oil

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  Published 4th Sep 2020
• What Has Trump Has Done to Alaska? Not as Much as He Wanted To

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  Published 30th Aug 2020
• ‘Super-Pollutant’ Emitted by 11 Chinese Chemical Plants Could Equal a Climate Catastrophe: China is also preparing to release its next round of commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, including, perhaps, how to tackle "non-CO2" emissions such as nitrous oxide.

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  Published 11th Aug 2020
• Harris and Ocasio-Cortez Team up on a Climate ‘Equity’ Bill, Leaving Activists Hoping for Unity

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  Published 6th Aug 2020
• Hundreds of Toxic Superfund Sites Imperiled by Sea-Level Rise, Study Warns

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  Published 31st Jul 2020
• Polar Bear Moms Stick to Their Dens Even Faced With Life-Threatening Dangers Like Oil Exploration

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  Published 12th Jul 2020
• Minnesota Alleges ExxonMobil, Koch and API Deceived Public About Climate Change | The state’s lawsuit seeks damages related to global warming under statutes prohibiting consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices and false advertising.

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  Published 25th Jun 2020
• For the Sunrise Movement’s D.C. Hub, a Call to Support the Movement for Black Lives | Members of the Washington chapter say they want to fully integrate racial justice into all of their work on climate change and the Green New Deal.

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  Published 16th Jun 2020
• Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) Vetoes Bill to Impose Mandatory 3 Year Prison Sentence on Pipeline Protesters

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  Published 15th Jun 2020
• Residents Fight to Keep Composting From Getting Trashed in New York City’s Covid-19 Budget Cuts

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  Published 12th Jun 2020
• In Louisiana, Stepping onto Oil and Gas Industry Land May Soon Get You 3 Years or More in Prison | The state is one of four to pass bills amidst the pandemic imposing harsh penalties for trespassing on oil pipelines or other “critical infrastructure.”

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  Published 10th Jun 2020
• As Protests Rage Over George Floyd’s Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice

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  Published 3rd Jun 2020
• New Study Shows Global Warming Intensifying Extreme Rainstorms Over North America | The current warming trajectory could bring 100-year rainstorms as often as every 2.5 years by 2100

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  Published 3rd Jun 2020
• New York’s Use of Landmark Climate Law Could Resound in Other States | Experts say they think a decision by regulators marks the first time that a law setting emissions targets has been used to block a natural gas pipeline.

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  Published 26th May 2020
• Tree Deaths in Urban Settings Are Linked to Leaks from Natural Gas Pipelines Below Streets: A new study finds dying trees are 30 times more likely to have been exposed to methane-contaminated soil, confirming long-held suspicions that gas leaks kill plants.

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  Published 22nd May 2020
• EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Meets with an Outpouring of Protest on Last Day for Public Comment | Among those opposing the proposed rule were nearly 40 top scientific organizations and academic institutions which jointly submitted a letter to the agency.

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  Published 20th May 2020
• Biden Names Ocasio-Cortez, Kerry to Lead His Climate Task Force, Bridging Democrats’ Divide

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  Published 15th May 2020
• To Mask or Not? The Weighty Symbolism Behind a Simple Choice | How a pandemic precaution has joined climate change as an indicator of our ideological differences.

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  Published 11th May 2020
• New Trump Nuclear Plan Favors Uranium Mining Bordering the Grand Canyon

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  Published 30th Apr 2020
• ‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests | New studies show drought and heat waves will cause massive die-offs, killing most trees alive today.

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  Published 27th Apr 2020
• Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds | The methane is a byproduct of fracking for oil, often burned off at well heads or emitted into the atmosphere instead of being captured for use as fuel.

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  Published 23rd Apr 2020
• Hospital Visits Declined After Sulfur Dioxide Reductions from Louisville-Area Coal Plants. A new study found a 55 percent reduction in lung-irritating pollutants and 400 fewer hospital admissions after one coal plant closed and others added scrubbers.

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  Published 14th Apr 2020
• Trump EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Dismiss Studies That Could Hold Clues to Covid-19

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  Published 8th Apr 2020
• 'Essential' but Unprotected, Farmworkers Live in Fear of Covid-19 but Keep Working

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  Published 6th Apr 2020
• Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry

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  Published 29th Mar 2020
• A Federal Court Delivers a Victory for Sioux Tribe, Another Blow for the Dakota Access Pipeline

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  Published 26th Mar 2020
• Trump’s EPA Fast-Tracks a Controversial Rule That Would Restrict the Use of Health Science | Researchers and environmental groups have called the proposal “reckless” and “unconscionable” in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Published 24th Mar 2020
• Maryland Climate Ruling a Setback for Oil and Gas Industry | The decision thwarts the fossil fuel industry’s argument that the city’s lawsuit belongs in federal court, and may influence similar cases around the country.

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  Published 9th Mar 2020
• For Many Nevada Latino Voters, Action on Climate Change is Key

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  Published 19th Feb 2020
• An Obscure Issue Four Years Ago, Climate Emerged as a Top Concern in New Hampshire

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  Published 13th Feb 2020
• Has Conservative Utah Turned a Corner on Climate Change?

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  Published 3rd Feb 2020
• 5 Reasons Many See Trump’s Free Trade Deal as a Triumph for Fossil Fuels

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  Published 27th Jan 2020
• How Trump’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Put Patients’ Privacy at Risk

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  Published 21st Jan 2020
• Dead Birds Washing Up by the Thousands Send a Warning About Climate Change | A new study unravels the mystery of what caused so many of these normally resilient seabirds to starve amid an ocean heat wave fueled in part by global warming.

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  Published 16th Jan 2020
• UN Proposes Protecting 30% of Earth to Slow Extinctions and Climate Change

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  Published 15th Jan 2020
• In Australia's Burning Forests, Signs We've Passed a Global Warming Tipping Point

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  Published 9th Jan 2020
• Turning Skiers Into Climate Voters with the Advocacy Potential of the NRA — The winter sports industry has millions of die-hard athletes who don’t want to lose their playgrounds, and it’s starting to mobilize them.

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  Published 1st Jan 2020
• As Coal Declined, This Valley Turned to Sustainable Farming. Now Fracking Threatens Its Future.

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• Natural Gas Rush Drives a Global Rise in Fossil Fuel Emissions. Often talked about as a ‘bridge fuel’ to renewable energy, natural gas and LNG are instead boosting fossil fuel use, a new study shows. "Globally, most of the new natural gas being used isn't displacing coal, it's providing new energy."

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  Published 13th Dec 2019
• UN Climate Summit Opens with Growing Concern About ‘Laggard’ Countries

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  Published 3rd Dec 2019
• Study Links Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure to Hospitalizations for Growing List of Health Problems

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  Published 30th Nov 2019
• Did Exxon Mislead Investors About Climate-Related Risks? It’s Now Up to a Judge to Decide.

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  Published 8th Nov 2019
• Trump Administration Proposes to Allow Increased Coal Plant Arsenic, Mercury Pollution, Delay Coal Ash Cleanup - Republicans scrambling to boost the coal industry ahead of the next election. Expect more rollbacks.

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  Published 6th Nov 2019
• Exxon's Climate Fraud Trial Nears Its End: What Does the State Have to Prove to Win?

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  Published 6th Nov 2019
• Bailout and Bankruptcy in Ohio

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  Published 3rd Nov 2019
• 15 Canadian Kids Sue Their Government for Failing to Address Climate Change

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  Published 28th Oct 2019
• Massachusetts Sues Exxon Over Climate Change, Accusing Oil Giant of Fraud

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  Published 25th Oct 2019
• Exxon and Oil Sands Go on Trial in New York Climate Fraud Case

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  Published 20th Oct 2019
• Ohio Governor Signs Nuclear and Coal Bailout at Expense of Renewable Energy

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  Published 25th Jul 2019
• Alaska Chokes on Wildfires as Heat Waves Dry Out the Arctic: Fires are spreading farther north, burning more intensely and starting earlier, in line with what scientists have warned would happen with climate change.

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  Published 12th Jul 2019
• A Kentucky Power Plant's Demise Signals a Reckoning for Coal

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  Published 17th Jun 2019
• 3 Republican ex-EPA Chiefs Rebuke Trump EPA on Climate Policy & Science

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  Published 12th Jun 2019
• Ohio’s Nuclear Bailout Plan Balloons to Embrace Coal (while Killing Renewable Energy Rules). It's a trifecta the Trump administration has pushed for nationally, with businesses and homeowners footing the bill for uneconomical power plants.

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  Published 5th Jun 2019
• Global Warming Is Hitting Ocean Species Hardest: fish, mollusks and other marine animals are disappearing at twice the rate of land-based species

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  Published 15th May 2019
• Washington Commits to 100% Clean Energy and Other States May Follow Suit

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  Published 8th May 2019
• New Wind and Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal in Much of the U.S., Analysis Finds

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  Published 25th Mar 2019
• Trump EPA Science Advisers Push Doubt About Air Pollution Health Risks - The new advisers include industry allies and consultants with ties to the fossil fuel, tobacco and chemical industries.

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  Published 17th Mar 2019
• Trump Budget Calls for Slashing Clean Energy Spending, Again. The White House, meanwhile, is proposing a 12 percent increase for the Office of Fossil Energy Research and Development, to $562 million.

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  Published 14th Mar 2019
• Michigan's New Governor Puts Climate Change at Heart of Government | Gretchen Whitmer created a new office of climate and energy and is the 20th governor to join the U.S. Climate Alliance, committing to the Paris climate principles.

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  Published 5th Feb 2019
• World's Oceans Are Warming Faster, Studies Show, Fueling Storms and Sea Rise

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  Published 11th Jan 2019
• Federal Shutdown Fears: Loss of Scientific Data, Research Delays

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  Published 9th Jan 2019
• U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Block Exxon Climate Fraud Investigation. Massachusetts' attorney general is trying to force Exxon to turn over decades of records involving what it knew about climate change and what it told the public.

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  Published 8th Jan 2019
• The Farm Bureau: Big Oil’s Unnoticed Ally Fighting Climate Science and Policy

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  Published 26th Dec 2018
• How the Farm Bureau’s Climate Agenda Is Failing Its Farmers

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  Published 28th Oct 2018
• That $3 Trillion-a-Year Clean Energy Transformation? It’s Already Underway.

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  Published 12th Oct 2018
• Pairing Wind + Solar for Cheaper, 24-Hr Renewable Energy - A unique power project in Ohio will take advantage of solar's midday burst of energy & wind's all-day power to provide more consistent clean energy to the grid.

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  Published 4th Oct 2018
• Water Use in Fracking Soars — Exceeding Rise in Fossil Fuels Produced, Study Says | The amount of water used per well in fracking jumped by as much as 770 percent, or nearly 9-fold, between 2011 and 2016, the study says.

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  Published 16th Aug 2018
• Cost of Coal: Electric Bills Skyrocket in Appalachia as Region’s Economy Collapses

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  Published 15th Aug 2018
• Atlanta Charts a Path to 100 Percent Renewable Electricity

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  Published 26th Jun 2018
• Unusually Hot Spring Threw Plants, Pollinators Out of Sync in Europe

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  Published 18th Jun 2018
• A Renewable Energy Battle is Brewing in Arizona, with Confusion as a Weapon. Climate advocates are preparing a ballot measure that calls for 50% renewables by 2030. GOP lawmakers just approved a nearly identical one, but with a catch. Only one requires that the target actually be met.

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  Published 2nd Apr 2018
• More Than 100 Cities Worldwide Now Powered Primarily by Renewable Energy | These cities get more than 70 percent of their electricity from wind, solar, geothermal and other renewables.

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  Published 27th Feb 2018